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Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE

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On Tue 05 Feb 2019 at 08:21:16 (-0500), Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2019 at 08:21:40PM -0700, Thomas D Dial wrote:
> > When in doubt about questions like this it often is helpful to consult
> > man pages, which often are available on the Web if you don't want to
> > install the necessary packages that includes them. In this case, if sudo
> > is installed, the man page for sudo also will be there, probably along
> > with those for sudoers and visudo, although I could be wrong about the
> > last.
> 
> The sudoers(5) man page is ridiculously complex, as is the format of
> the /etc/sudoers file.  For 99% of Debian users, it's also completely
> unnecessary to know it.  Just make sure your primary user account is in
> the sudo group, and you will be able to run ANY command with sudo, being
> prompted for your password if you haven't used sudo on that terminal
> in the last few minutes.

Sure, but what's the difference between that and opening an xterm with
(the overspecified)   /bin/su -   where you don't have to keep typing
a password every few minutes.

> You only need to learn this incredibly byzantine file syntax if you want
> to do something fancier than that.

Or you just copy an example, making your own substitutions. (That's
how I learned English on my mother's knee.)

Cheers,
David.

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Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-04 17:40 +0100
  Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-04 18:40 +0100
    Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-04 19:40 +0100
      Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-04 22:50 +0100
      PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-06 20:50 +0100
        Re: PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2019-02-06 22:30 +0100
          Re: PARTIAL success - was [Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-07 14:30 +0100
  Using sudo, was Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-04 18:50 +0100
    Re: Using sudo, was Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2019-02-04 19:40 +0100
  Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-04 21:40 +0100
  Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2019-02-04 22:10 +0100
  Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Thomas D Dial <tdial@acm.org> - 2019-02-05 04:40 +0100
    Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-02-05 14:30 +0100
      Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-05 15:10 +0100
        Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2019-02-05 16:00 +0100
          Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-02-05 18:00 +0100
      Re: Adding/modifying users under MATE DE rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-02-06 05:10 +0100

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